Featured Trades: (SOUTH AFRICA), (EZA) South Africa iShares ETF 2) On Safari in South Africa. When I first visited South Africa (EZA) as a journalist in 1979, I was stuffed into the trunk of a car and smuggled into Soweto, a fenced off? 'township' , so I could write about the appalling living conditions there.
Featured Trades: (SILVER), (SLV) iShares Silver Trust ETF 2) Silver is Hot, Hot, Hot. Those who followed my advice to watch silver should by now have the precious coins raining down upon them (click here for 'Why the Really Big Play is in Silver' ). Since then, the precious white metal has jumped 8%
Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD), (GDX) SPDR Gold Shares ETF Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF 1) The San Francisco Money Show. I attended the Woodstock of investment conferences last week, the San Francisco Money Show, which offered an entertaining three ring circus of traders, foreign exchange models, options platforms, newsletters, cruises, video broadcasts, and more. The
Featured Trades: (STEVE FORBES) 2) A Chat With Steve Forbes. I sat down with Forbes magazine publisher and perennial Republican presidential candidate, Steve Forbes, whose father, Malcolm, I knew from my journalism days in the seventies. He was there formally to promote his new book, Power Ambition Glory, but I couldn't help but sense his
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (TREASURY BONDS), (TIPS), (TBT) ProShares Ultra Short 20 year +Treasury ETF 1) Don't Buy That Treasury Bond. Another week later, and Treasury bond prices have raced up to even dizzier heights, breaking more records for over valuation. According to the Investment Company Institute, outflows from equity mutual funds
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE), (BAC) 2) Another Nail in the Coffin for Residential Real Estate. Those few, like myself, who believe that the residential real estate market has another down leg ahead of it, got their smoking gun yesterday. July existing home sales cratered 27.2% to a seasonally adjusted rate
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD), (GDX) SPDR Gold Shares ETF Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF 3) Why Gold Seems Unbreakable. While the rest of the world has been going to hell in a hand basket, gold (GLD), (GDX) refuses to take a serious dip, and is threatening the old $1,260 high. Today,
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (TREASURY BONDS) 4) Its Official: China is Unloading its Treasury Bonds. It looks like the smart money these days is found in China. While American investors have been scrambling over each other to buy more Treasury bonds at historically low yields, China has begun quietly unloading some of its
'If you look at previous times in US history when bond yields were this low, the returns have been quite poor. Bonds now have many elements of a bubble. We're at the end of the debt super cycle. First we had a large banking crisis. The next step is a large sovereign crisis. This means
Featured Trades: (BEHAVIORAL TARGETING) 1) So You Think They're Not Watching You on Your PC? Hey! You there, staring at this monitor. This is your PC talking to you. No, not you over there standing in the background. I'm talking to the guy sitting in front of me poking at my keys. Ouch! That one
